A cheap hi-rail?

[DKS]

I posted this on another thread a while ago. This fellow should really fire up some inspiration. Imagine a fully-articulated (steering and direction, plus lighting effects), self-powered, radio-controlled N scale Wiking VW bus...

http://freenet-homepage.de/mikromodell/vw160.htm

I have a thought about solving the traction problem with the hi-rail. Two 4 x 8 mm pager motors will easily fit inside. I'll use two of them, back to back, for 4-wheel drive. I ordered four of them (only 6 Euros each, I may order lots more) plus matching (I hope) worm/worm gear sets...

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Dave, when you get the parts and if they fit can you post the part numbers and pictures?

[sparky]

Well David, if anyone can make that work, you can.  I'll be watching with great interest.  Hopefully, those tiny motors will have enough torque and speed-match well enough to make it work.

[DKS]

Dave, when you get the parts and if they fit can you post the part numbers and pictures?

Roger Wilco.

Well David, if anyone can make that work, you can.  I'll be watching with great interest.

Thanks! You may have more confidence in me than I do myself, but I will give it my best.

[sparky]

Thanks! You may have more confidence in me than I do myself, but I will give it my best.

Of course I have confidence.  You put a rotating fan in a N scale window and made a tiny rotating barber pole for crying out loud! 

[SquirrelHollow]

If you read this post before the edit, just ignore it.  I answered my own question. 

I'll be hoping to see some good results from those motors, as well.  You've pulled off some micro animations I would probably be too afraid to attempt.

[SquirrelHollow]

I just went through the whole GHQ catalog.  It looks like the hi-rail is definitely gone.

Something that caught my eye, though, was this beaut' of a 'burban.
http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/51014.html

I'm not attempting to hi-jack.  I just have too much time on my hands right now.

[Chris333]

Couldn't you guys use one of these:
http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/51008.html
http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/51004.html
http://www.ghqmodels.com/store/51014.html

[bsoplinger]

Don't know about the hi-rail, but aren't many of the GHQ vehicles in the cheap one piece category solid? If you look at the pictures that Chris333 posted links to they all have painted on windows.

A hollow body is needed to put in the motor and gearing and whatnot, no?

[DKS]

Don't know about the hi-rail, but aren't many of the GHQ vehicles in the cheap one piece category solid? If you look at the pictures that Chris333 posted links to they all have painted on windows.

A hollow body is needed to put in the motor and gearing and whatnot, no?

Yes, they do have solid windows (so did the hi-rail I powered), but they are not a solid block of pewter. If they were, I would not have bothered to try it. The interior is partially hollow, and only a moderate amount of grinding is necessary to install a mechanism.

[daniel_leavitt2000]

I would not consider the GHQ models "cheap" in any definition. They are the best detailed models out there today.

As for the models mentioned:
No railroad would use a dualy as a hi-rail
Conrail never used Fords or Suburbans as hi-rails
Hell, I'm pushing it just using a crew cab (I think they had a few but not many)

[sparky]

Don't know about the hi-rail, but aren't many of the GHQ vehicles in the cheap one piece category solid?

Is is possible you're thinking of the Lineside (formerly Road Apples) one-piece resin vehicles?  Well, one piece bodies with separate wheels.  I've always found the GHQ models to be quite well done.

[Greyryder]

I would not consider the GHQ models "cheap" in any definition. They are the best detailed models out there today.

As for the models mentioned:
No railroad would use a dualy as a hi-rail
Conrail never used Fords or Suburbans as hi-rails
Hell, I'm pushing it just using a crew cab (I think they had a few but not many)

I live within spitting distance of what used to be a heavily used Conrail double track main. *mutters disparaging comments about CSX* My memory's not the greatest, but I'm fairly certain that I did see a crew cab high rail on at least one occasion.

[kiwi_al]

You Americans have crap memories.......   ;D ;D ;D ;D

How could you guys forget this tsk tsk tsk........

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17957&SearchTerms=MOW

Here's another I just found.

http://forum.atlasrr.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17263&SearchTerms=MOW

[daniel_leavitt2000]

Its too big.. I want a smaller pickup.